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Bill Gates semi-retiring

Microsoft's Gates to Leave Daily Role
Jun 15 4:42 PM US/Eastern
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REDMOND, Wash.


Microsoft Corp. said after the bell Thursday that Chairman Bill Gates will transition out of a day-to-day role in the company to spend more time on his global health and education work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The company announced a two-year transition process to ensure that there is a smooth and orderly transfer of Gates' daily responsibilities, and said that after July 2008 Gates would continue to serve as the company's chairman and an adviser on key development projects.



Microsoft said Chief Technical Officer Ray Ozzie will immediately assume the title of chief software architect and begin working with Gates on all technical architecture and product oversight responsibilities, to ensure a smooth transition.

Similarly, Chief Technical Officer Craig Mundie will immediately take the new title of chief research and strategy officer and will work with Gates to responsibility for the company's research and incubation efforts; Mundie also will partner with general counsel Brad Smith to guide Microsoft's intellectual property and technology policy efforts.

 
Didn't read it, but he's probably just moving to a position of being the spokesperson and public figure of Microsoft instead of being on the business side.
 
Originally posted by: yowolabi
Somehow I doubt his leaving will impact the company or it's direction at all.
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It will affect the stock for at most a month before and after he leaves, then it will go back to normal.
 
"I believe with great wealth comes great responsibility - the responsibility to give back to soicety and make sure those resources are given back in the best possible way, to those in need," he said.
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OMG UNCLE BEN IS ALIVE!!!!1!!
Tell Spider-man that he's rich!
 
I read the article, and I say good for him. As popular as it is for the geek community to laugh at Gates, you need to remember that because of him many of you have jobs. As 'cool' as it is to say that only people who kernel edit for Linux and can write their own OS should be allowed to use computers, the fact that Microsoft made software more accessable to the average user that has problems checking email only made for more opportunities. Help desk, in-home support, admining, software engineer, and even sales benefited from the company that he founded; and I'd say that at least half the people here have jobs related directly to what he did for the industry.

As for the inevitable argument that Microsoft stole from Apple... remember that Apple stole the exact same ideas from Xerox, who were going to dump the project anyways and prevent the computer age from ever happening.

I salute Bill Gates and wish him well in his comfortable retirement, and if I could shake his hand I would. His continued work on the charity organization is nothing less than 100% help to society, and the fact that he's continuing on with is is a very generous gesture to the rest of society.
 
Originally posted by: ThaGrandCow
I read the article, and I say good for him. As popular as it is for the geek community to laugh at Gates, you need to remember that because of him many of you have jobs. As 'cool' as it is to say that only people who kernel edit for Linux and can write their own OS should be allowed to use computers, the fact that Microsoft made software more accessable to the average user that has problems checking email only made for more opportunities. Help desk, in-home support, admining, software engineer, and even sales benefited from the company that he founded; and I'd say that at least half the people here have jobs related directly to what he did for the industry.

As for the inevitable argument that Microsoft stole from Apple... remember that Apple stole the exact same ideas from Xerox, who were going to dump the project anyways and prevent the computer age from ever happening.

I salute Bill Gates and wish him well in his comfortable retirement, and if I could shake his hand I would. His continued work on the charity organization is nothing less than 100% help to society, and the fact that he's continuing on with is is a very generous gesture to the rest of society.
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you sir are a grand cow indeed. A kind and noble cow. I didn't know the bit about Xerox. Though I doubt them "dumping it" would have PREVENTED the computer age I'm sure it would have slowed it down a good bit.
 
Originally posted by: ThaGrandCow
I read the article, and I say good for him. As popular as it is for the geek community to laugh at Gates, you need to remember that because of him many of you have jobs. As 'cool' as it is to say that only people who kernel edit for Linux and can write their own OS should be allowed to use computers, the fact that Microsoft made software more accessable to the average user that has problems checking email only made for more opportunities. Help desk, in-home support, admining, software engineer, and even sales benefited from the company that he founded; and I'd say that at least half the people here have jobs related directly to what he did for the industry.

As for the inevitable argument that Microsoft stole from Apple... remember that Apple stole the exact same ideas from Xerox, who were going to dump the project anyways and prevent the computer age from ever happening.

I salute Bill Gates and wish him well in his comfortable retirement, and if I could shake his hand I would. His continued work on the charity organization is nothing less than 100% help to society, and the fact that he's continuing on with is is a very generous gesture to the rest of society.
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SPOT ON.
+:beer: for Mr. Gates and all the great work he has done for the world.
 
Originally posted by: saymyname
The guy gives an extraordinary amount of money away. He is a good guy.
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:thumbsup:

yeah, but people only like to look at him as the sole source of an operating system that they will complain about, but continue to buy every 5 years.
 
Originally posted by: ThaGrandCow
I read the article, and I say good for him. As popular as it is for the geek community to laugh at Gates, you need to remember that because of him many of you have jobs. As 'cool' as it is to say that only people who kernel edit for Linux and can write their own OS should be allowed to use computers, the fact that Microsoft made software more accessable to the average user that has problems checking email only made for more opportunities. Help desk, in-home support, admining, software engineer, and even sales benefited from the company that he founded; and I'd say that at least half the people here have jobs related directly to what he did for the industry.

As for the inevitable argument that Microsoft stole from Apple... remember that Apple stole the exact same ideas from Xerox, who were going to dump the project anyways and prevent the computer age from ever happening.

I salute Bill Gates and wish him well in his comfortable retirement, and if I could shake his hand I would. His continued work on the charity organization is nothing less than 100% help to society, and the fact that he's continuing on with is is a very generous gesture to the rest of society.
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that's almost logical.

wtf are you doing here anyway? 🙂
 
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